The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 31
‘Will you sell me your house?’ asked Don Giovanni.
Who acts: you · What happens: sell, ask · To what, where: house, me, Don · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sell | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sell | nsubj |
| 4 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sell | iobj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sell | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sell | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sell | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Don | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | future | you | your house | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Don | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent don=Recipient clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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